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"Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a culturally sensitive and effective tool for studying Chinese discourses. In addition to paradigmatic construction, the book applies this new framework to local and global issues in present-day China, such as human rights, trade disputes and urban development. This book unpacks the critical implications for understanding cultural diversity, division and development both within the discipline and beyond, making it an invaluable resource researchers of discourse analysis, Chinese studies, and cultural studies. "--

In the international scholarship, Chinese political communication is usually viewed from a political-economic and West-centric perspective. Consequently, it is portrayed as a product of the Chinese Communist Party('s ideology), deviant, totalitarian and unchanging. In this article I first argue for a historical and intercultural approach and so a view of contemporary Chinese political discourse as dynamic, critical-creative and cultural-hegemony-resistant. Then I analyze and assess accordingly the case of the Chinese discourse of human rights. It will be seen that this discourse has been evolving topically, reinforcing socially, and responding interculturally, thereby constituting a historic transformation in China's human rights situation on the one hand and a counter-veiling force in the unbalanced international communication on human rights on the other. In conclusion I suggest that the mainstream scholarship go beyond the a-historical-and-a-intercultural approach to political communication in general and to that of non-Western societies in particular.

In this paper, I present a theoretical and empirical analysis as well as assessment of Chinese political discourse from a culture-interactive and culture-competitive perspective. Against the background of the common political-economic, and West-centric frame of Chinese communication, it is argued that Chinese political discourse is not in isolation from wider international culture and history and especially the intercultural context of power struggle, but should rather be seen as a dynamic, culturally responsive agent in both localized and globalizing interaction. Accordingly, this perspective is applied to the particular case of the Chinese discourse of human rights in the past two decades. Through this culturally-minded discourse analysis, it is shown that the Chinese discourse of human rights constitutes as a hegemony-resistant response through active participation, claiming conceptual and operational diversity, and direct confrontation in response to especially the American-Western subordinating discourse on the issue, achieving a significant advancement in the human discourse of human rights thereby.